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Post by DiBiase is Good on Jan 3, 2014 19:10:20 GMT -5
Die Hard. 25 years on and it's still a contender for the greatest action film ever. With the recent sequel being piss poor, I really hope they don't go down the "let's start again with a younger John McClane". I know it seemed for a while that any action film was seen as "Die Hard on a......" (like Under Siege was Die Hard on a ship, Speed was Die Hard on a bus etc.) but they weren't. As much as I think he's a bit of a dick nowadays, Bruce Willis is John McClane. And Alan Rickman IS Hans Gruber!
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Post by Zombie Mod on Jan 3, 2014 19:10:29 GMT -5
I'm convinced that no one has to balls to try and remake a Spielberg film, since he's such a power-broker in Hollywood. www.imdb.com/title/tt2918116/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2**edit** I know it's in development and could stay there for a long time.
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Post by SEAN CARLESS on Jan 3, 2014 19:12:56 GMT -5
I'm convinced that no one has to balls to try and remake a Spielberg film, since he's such a power-broker in Hollywood. www.imdb.com/title/tt2918116/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2**edit** I know it's in development and could stay there for a long time. Wow. Any word on who's making it?
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Jan 3, 2014 19:13:13 GMT -5
I'm convinced that no one has to balls to try and remake a Spielberg film, since he's such a power-broker in Hollywood. Aren't we getting a remake of Poltergeist soon? I know the original has Tobe Hooper's name on the credit but there are always the stories that it's an "unofficial" Spielberg film.
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Post by Zombie Mod on Jan 3, 2014 19:15:45 GMT -5
Wow. Any word on who's making it? nope.
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Post by tigermaskxxxvii on Jan 3, 2014 19:29:16 GMT -5
-Back To The Future: Honestly, I'm surprised that this hasn't been put up for a remake, since we're rapidly approaching the date of Back to the Future II's future scenes. But I just know that if they remade it, with a 2010s Marty going back to the 80s, it just wouldn't feel as good as the original. Besides we already had our time travel to the 80's movie with Hot Tub Time Machine. Sure, that still wouldn't stop Hollywood from remaking Back To The Future since it's still an established franchise and cashing in off an established movie franchise is what makes studio execs hear cash registers. But we've had more than enough of 80's retro chic in the form of movies and TV shows based in that era (just look at the fact that 80's based show The Goldbergs premiered this past fall) and in cut away gags on Family Guy (speaking of which Seth MacFarlane helped keep 80's pop culture alive by having Sam J. Jones make a cameo in Ted). So the dead horse of 80's nostalgia has been flogged for all its worth (I'm starting to feel this way about 90's nostalgia as well). Sure, that probably wouldn't stop anyone from making an 80's based BTTF remake if there's still money to be made (I'm sure by the time BTTF first came out there were people were sick of 50's nostalgia in the form of TV shows like Happy Days and films like American Graffiti). There was an interesting article on HuffPo for the 20th anniversary of Dazed and Confused and why you couldn't make the same movie based in 1996 (since that would be 17 years prior to 2013 as Dazed and Confused was released in '93 and based in '76). I think the same basic principle applies to Back To The Future to a lesser extent, since 30 years will still feel like a longer turn around than 17 years but I feel it still applies. Interesting to note Back To The Future is mentioned in the article when the author quotes Chuck Klosterman mentioning how accelerated culture makes the past seem less distant. www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-ryan/dazed-and-confused-20-years_b_4085398.html
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Post by eDemento2099 on Jan 3, 2014 19:38:44 GMT -5
- John Carpenter's The Thing
- Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead
- Desmond Davis' Clash of the Titans
Oh shi...
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Post by eDemento2099 on Jan 3, 2014 19:44:10 GMT -5
Any of Fulci's Gates of Hell Trilogy especially The Beyond. Thankfully it seems that a lot of the Italian zombie movies are exempt from being remade. Same goes for another Italian export, the cannibal sub-genre (Whose films were, by and large, trashy and reprehensible for their mistreatment of animals. However, there were a few gems amongst the crap - films like Man From Deep River, Mountain of the Cannibal God, and Cannibal Holocaust).
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Jan 3, 2014 19:58:08 GMT -5
Pretty sure this is in production.... and regardless what happens it really can't be any worse than The Source...
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Post by willywonka666 on Jan 3, 2014 20:28:00 GMT -5
Blues Brothers. I will kill a mother f***er over that
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Post by Some Guy on Jan 3, 2014 20:31:11 GMT -5
Meh, I'm immune to being bothered after the Robocop remake looks like they completely whiffed on the point of the original.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2014 20:32:25 GMT -5
With Robocop being made, my fear has been brought to life.
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Post by wildojinx on Jan 3, 2014 21:08:19 GMT -5
-Back To The Future: Honestly, I'm surprised that this hasn't been put up for a remake, since we're rapidly approaching the date of Back to the Future II's future scenes. But I just know that if they remade it, with a 2010s Marty going back to the 80s, it just wouldn't feel as good as the original. Besides we already had our time travel to the 80's movie with Hot Tub Time Machine. Sure, that still wouldn't stop Hollywood from remaking Back To The Future since it's still an established franchise and cashing in off an established movie franchise is what makes studio execs hear cash registers. But we've had more than enough of 80's retro chic in the form of movies and TV shows based in that era (just look at the fact that 80's based show The Goldbergs premiered this past fall) and in cut away gags on Family Guy (speaking of which Seth MacFarlane helped keep 80's pop culture alive by having Sam J. Jones make a cameo in Ted). So the dead horse of 80's nostalgia has been flogged for all its worth (I'm starting to feel this way about 90's nostalgia as well). Sure, that probably wouldn't stop anyone from making an 80's based BTTF remake if there's still money to be made (I'm sure by the time BTTF first came out there were people were sick of 50's nostalgia in the form of TV shows like Happy Days and films like American Graffiti). There was an interesting article on HuffPo for the 20th anniversary of Dazed and Confused and why you couldn't make the same movie based in 1996 (since that would be 17 years prior to 2013 as Dazed and Confused was released in '93 and based in '76). I think the same basic principle applies to Back To The Future to a lesser extent, since 30 years will still feel like a longer turn around than 17 years but I feel it still applies. Interesting to note Back To The Future is mentioned in the article when the author quotes Chuck Klosterman mentioning how accelerated culture makes the past seem less distant. www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-ryan/dazed-and-confused-20-years_b_4085398.htmlIt doesnt help that most pop culture from the 80s and up has been mass archived in some form, so you can pretty much get an idea of what it was like to be a kid or teen in the 80s or 90s. Back when DaC came out, only the big stuff from the 70s was readily availale, while the more obscure forgotten stuff wasnt, so it kind of added to the "mystique" of the decade.
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Post by Banecat on Jan 4, 2014 0:50:17 GMT -5
Some asshole will remake it "dark and gritty" One another hand, I wouldn't mind a dark and gritty Buck Rogers movie. There are tons of 80s movies I'd hate to see remade. How about Blade Runner, Transformers the Motion Picture and Ghostbusters.
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Post by slappy on Jan 4, 2014 1:20:03 GMT -5
Clue.
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Post by agent817 on Jan 4, 2014 2:07:12 GMT -5
- John Carpenter's The Thing Little do people know that John Carpenter's "The Thing" was actually a remake itself.
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Post by eDemento2099 on Jan 4, 2014 6:19:15 GMT -5
- John Carpenter's The Thing Little do people know that John Carpenter's "The Thing" was actually a remake itself. I have seen the Howard Hawks original, but John Carpenter's is superior, in my opinion. And to be fair, the 2011 film called The Thing is a prequel rather than a remake, even though it plays out an awful lot like a remake/reboot. It was better than average, but not nearly as memorable as Carpenter's film. I don't think people are likely to remember it as a classic ten years down the line.
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Jan 4, 2014 7:24:03 GMT -5
I'm convinced that no one has to balls to try and remake a Spielberg film, since he's such a power-broker in Hollywood. Aren't we getting a remake of Poltergeist soon? I know the original has Tobe Hooper's name on the credit but there are always the stories that it's an "unofficial" Spielberg film. They better do something the original didn't do, and not use real human remains. The WWE should be the ones remaking it, and call it Coltergeist.
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Post by Sephiroth on Jan 4, 2014 8:39:02 GMT -5
Revenge of the Nerds. It was bad enough they made it in the first place, the idea of someone thinking they have to remake it sends me under my bed in terror.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2014 8:58:03 GMT -5
I won't sweat it because they will never remake Hoosiers. You can't replicate perfection.
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